Valkiria Duran-Narucki

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Originally from Costa Rica, Valkiria Durán-Narucki is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology of the College of Staten Island, CUNY. She came to the United States thanks to a Fulbright Scholarship from the US Department of State. She obtained a master’s degree from New York University with an emphasis in Community Psychology, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of CUNY in Environmental Psychology. Her main research focus is environmental meaning and the reproduction of social structure in urban public school buildings. She is interested in learning about the role of the physical environment in creating or interrupting processes of social justice. She is also interested in the health effects of the physical environment from the perspective of environmental and ecological psychology. Her research intends to inform and affect public policy. Dr. Duran-Narucki has taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor at William Paterson University and as an Adjunct Professor at Lehman College. She has also been a research consultant for the Center for Building Knowledge of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).